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A long brass tap wall in a warm taproom with a Barley table tent on the bar inviting customers to scan, rate what's on tap, and earn rewards.

AI Brewery Marketing Automation — Turn Every Taproom Customer Into a Regular

The AI loyalty and marketing platform for craft breweries — taste profiles, segmented release alerts, and a dashboard that finally shows what’s working, all from your Square data.

Brewlytics Beer Intelligence dashboard — ratings collected, top-rated beers, freshness watch, style demand trends, and sensory feedback.

Why Brewlytics

Your tap list won't save you. Turning every customer into regulars will.

Customers come into your taproom, find favorites, come back — until they don't. Bartenders remember the regulars; nobody remembers the rest. New releases go out via Instagram and a one-size-fits-all email blast.

The data is there…

Make your marketing land

Social reach is shrinking and inboxes are crowded. Give your marketing a sharper tool.

Your team puts real work into every post and newsletter — but broadcast reach keeps slipping, and it's hard to prove what drove a visit. Barley doesn't replace your marketing. It makes it sharper: reach the right drinkers by taste, send only when it's relevant, and see exactly what landed.

  • Boosted posts and ads reach whoever the algorithm happens to pick.

    Reach the drinkers most likely to love this release — matched by taste.

  • One newsletter, one message, sent to your whole list at once.

    Segment by what each person actually drinks, so the right beer hits the right inbox.

  • Reach you rent on platforms that can change the rules overnight.

    An audience you own — customer relationships that live with you, not a feed.

  • Likes, opens, and impressions that never quite add up to sales.

    Repeat visits and revenue you can defend on Monday.

Keep posting. Keep sending. Barley just makes it land — the right beer, to the right drinker, with proof it worked.

Why email blasts lost their reach

For Breweries

What Barley does for breweries

The tools you need to build loyalty and grow your business — one platform, built for every job a taproom actually runs.

A customer's Barley taste profile — flavor preferences and recommended beers built from their ratings and check-ins.

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Customer taste profiles

Every interaction sharpens a per-customer taste graph — the onboarding quiz, ratings, chat, and order claims reveal hop preferences, ABV range, can vs. draft, and more. Barley recommends on two engines: the beer's own flavor profile (a Beer Taste Genome) and what drinkers with the same palate love (collaborative filtering).

Barley sending a new-release alert to the customers whose taste profile matches the beer.

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Automated release alerts

A new beer hits the tap and Barley pings the customers most likely to love it — segmented by taste, not blasted to your whole list.

Barley loyalty & rewards — points, tiers, and perks customers redeem in your POS.

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Loyalty & rewards

Points, tiers, perks, and birthday rewards out of the box. Customers redeem in your POS; you don't change a thing.

Brewlytics real-time dashboards — ratings collected, top-rated beers, freshness watch, style demand trends, and sensory feedback.

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Real-time dashboards

Top-performing styles, repeat-visit cohorts, segment-level conversion, and which campaigns actually moved revenue — the Beer Intelligence view, updated as orders land.

The Barley AI chat widget embedded on a brewery's website, recommending what's on tap to a visitor.

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AI bartender on your site

A chat experience embedded on your brewery's website that recommends what's pouring tonight based on the visitor's history — or, for new visitors, their stated preferences.

A brewery TV menu display showing the current tap list, branded to the taproom.

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Reliable TV menu displays

Offline-cached digital menus that don't go blank mid-service, with AI-generated backgrounds branded to your taproom — not a template. Auto-synced from your POS.

A warm taproom with tables where Barley's free QR table tents invite customers to scan, rate, and earn.

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Free QR table tents

Order free Barley table tents for every table — each with its own QR code. Customers scan to rate what they're drinking, join rewards, and meet Barley. You get a heat map of which tables and zones drive the most scans, ratings, and signups — so you can see where your taproom actually converts.

Companion Commerce™

Your customers get an app this good — for free.

  • Knows their taste

    Barley learns what each customer loves from every pour.

  • Smart release alerts

    Customers get pinged the moment a beer they'll love drops.

  • Rewards that matter

    Points, perks, and exclusive releases keep them coming back.

  • Always-on bartender

    Barley answers your customers 24/7 — in the app and on your site.

  • Taste insights

    Every rating sharpens the taste genome behind your dashboard.

Live

At our first partner brewery

< 5 min

To connect Barley to your Square POS

4

POS integrations live or in pipeline

100%

Customer-data opt-in. No surprise emails.

Included free with every Brewlytics plan

A premium listing in the Barley app — at no extra cost

Drinkers download the free Barley app to find craft beer near them. Every partner gets a featured listing — gold badge, custom hero image, live tap list, follow button, real-time release alerts. The audience funnel comes with the product.

  • Top of Discover

    Nearby drinkers see you first, with a gold Brewlytics badge. Non-partner breweries drop to muted, text-only directory rows.

  • Taste-scored tap list

    Every beer in your Square catalog shows a personalized match score for each customer — the same percent-match they see on their screen.

  • Follow + release alerts

    Customers who follow you get your release-radar texts automatically — no extra signup, no list to maintain.

  • In-the-moment feedback

    Minutes after a customer pays, Barley texts a one-tap rating prompt — and their answer flows into your dashboard the same night.

The Barley customer app showing a brewery's premium listing — header image, logo, Follow button, Directions / Website / Call, and a live tap list with per-customer match scores.

How your data becomes intelligence

Six steps from authorizing a POS connection to a brewery that knows its regulars by name and beer.

  1. Step 1

    Connect Square (under 5 minutes)

    Click connect, authorize Barley in your Square dashboard, pick the locations you want tracked. No new hardware, no integration engineer required.

  2. Step 2

    Map your beers in the wizard

    POS item names are messy. Barley's setup wizard surfaces every beer it found, asks you to confirm style, ABV, IBU, hop bill, and freshness window, then files each one into the Beer Taste Genome. Under twenty minutes for a typical 30-tap list.

  3. Step 3

    Customers start teaching Barley

    Taste profiles build as customers engage — the onboarding quiz, chat widget, ratings, and QR check-ins. Within a week of customers opting in, the model has enough signal to produce useful recommendations.

  4. Step 4

    Customers opt in via the taproom

    QR code on the menu, the brewery's website, or via your existing email list. Opt-in is explicit; customers can leave any time.

  5. Step 5

    Releases get matched to the right people

    When you tap a new beer, Barley segments by taste profile and sends release alerts (iMessage, SMS, or in-app) only to customers likely to love it.

  6. Step 6

    You see what's working

    A real-time dashboard shows top styles, repeat-visit cohorts, campaign ROI, and which guests are trending up or churning. Decisions you can defend in the Monday meeting.

Built for the way breweries actually work

  • Not a generic chatbot

    Barley is purpose-built for craft beer — it speaks ABV, IBU, dry hop, and lambic. Off-the-shelf LLMs don't. Customers can tell the difference, and so can your bartenders.

  • Customer privacy first

    Opt-in by default, opt-out one tap. We never sell or share customer data. Period.

  • Works with your tools

    Square POS, your existing email or SMS provider, your Shopify or Squarespace site. Barley layers in; nothing rips out.

  • Honest data

    No inflated open rates. No vanity metrics. The dashboard shows what drove revenue, not what looked good on a pitch deck.

  • The intelligence layer, not a POS add-on

    Square Loyalty is points-and-rewards inside Square. Barley is a customer-intelligence platform that runs alongside your POS and makes every other tool smarter. Both can run together; only one of them learns from the data.

Plans

Start free. Upgrade when the data earns it.

Every brewery starts on Free — a real presence in the Barley app and taste data building behind the scenes. Move to Pro when you want to see that data and act on it. Multi-location covers regional operators.

Start here

Free

Get your brewery into the Barley app and start collecting taste data — no cost, no card.

$0/ forever

No card. Connect your POS and you’re live in the Barley app.

  • Enhanced brewery profile in the Barley app (photos, directions, tap list)
  • Customers find, rate, and review your beers
  • Taste profiles build automatically as customers engage
  • Free QR table-tent kit to grow your Barley following
  • POS sync keeps your tap list current
  • Your dashboard — waiting, the day you upgrade
Start free
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Pro

Unlock the data and the outreach. See who your regulars are — then bring them back.

$99/ mo

+ $0.20 per active customer / mo

Active = a unique customer who engaged that month. iMessage + SMS + AI usage included. No transaction fees.

  • Everything in Free
  • See every customer taste profile and segment
  • Segmented iMessage + SMS release alerts
  • Rich iMessage — release photos, label art & tappable links, with SMS fallback so every alert lands
  • AI bartender chat for your website
  • Loyalty & rewards management
  • Full analytics dashboard
  • One-click data export, anytime
Start Pro

Scale

Multi-location

Built for regional breweries and multi-taproom operators.

Pricing

Custom — talk to sales

Volume pricing across locations, sized to your active customer count during the demo.

  • Everything in Pro, across every location
  • Cross-location reporting & rollups
  • Volume pricing on active customers
  • Distributor Drop — auto-text wholesale reps on releases
  • API & custom integrations
  • Priority support
Talk to sales

See the full pricing breakdown & per-active calculator

For Breweries

Ready to bring Barley to your taproom?

Go Pro to see your customers and run campaigns — or start free, no card, live in minutes. Book a walkthrough with the brewer who built it.

Seamless Integrations

Works with the tools you already use. Start with Square POS to map your menu’s flavor DNA, then build taste profiles and timely release alerts as your customers engage.

  • Built for Square POS first

    MVP starts with Square so breweries can plug in and let Barley start learning right away.

  • Designed for SMS & app push

    Built to support timely release alerts wherever your customers prefer to hear from you.

  • Website-ready chat widget

    Embed Barley on your brewery's site to recommend beers and capture loyalty signups.

  • Customer taste dashboard

    See what people love, what's converting, and which releases are hitting.

Frequently asked questions

Ready to see Barley on your taproom data?

Go Pro and see it all — taste profiles, segmented iMessage + SMS release alerts, the AI bartender, loyalty, and the full dashboard. Or book a 30-minute walkthrough and we'll set it up with you, live. Not ready? Start free and explore at no cost.